BIB_ID
293754
Accession number
MA 47.28
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Sept. 15].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
"Fair Jenny -- Tune, The grey cock" first line: Where are the joys I have met in the morning.
"Fair Jenny -- Tune, The grey cock" here without edits and as published.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and SE 15) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Sept. 1792 [sic] Mr. Burns with new Verses to Saw ye my father."
Localization and dating from postmarks.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
"Fair Jenny -- Tune, The grey cock" here without edits and as published.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (Dumfries and SE 15) and addressed to "Mr. George Thomson / Trustees Office / Edinr." Docketed "Sept. 1792 [sic] Mr. Burns with new Verses to Saw ye my father."
Localization and dating from postmarks.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
Summary
Refusing edits (probably to his "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn") suggested by Thomson, noting "My Ode pleases me so much that I cannot alter it" and that Thomson's "proposed alterations ... would make it tame." Giving the verses of "Fair Jenny -- Tune, The grey cock," and discussing its completion.
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